Integrated economic and environmental assessment of waste policy instruments

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Söderman, Maria Ljunggren ^a,b   Eriksson, Ola ^c   Björklund, Anna ^d   Östblom, Göran ^e   Ekvall, Tomas ^b   Finnveden, Göran ^d   Arushanyan, Yevgeniya ^d   Sundqvist, Jan Olov ^b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b IVL SWEDISH ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÄVLE   (Sweden)

^d ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^e Natl Institute of Economic Research   (Sweden)

Author keywords

CGE models; Life cycle assessment; Life cycle sustainability analysis; Systems engineering models; Waste management; Waste policy; Waste prevention

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; ECONOMIC IMPACT; ECONOMIC INSTRUMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SUSTAINABILITY; WASTE TREATMENT;

EUROPE;

EID: 84970990714     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su8050411     Document Type: Article

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